There were two separate challenges: Levels and Tiles. You complete those by asking and answering questions.

It was here that I was spending all my free time during the last two weeks. Here’s what I managed to achieve:

Level 1

100%

Level 2

100%

Level 3

79%

Level 4

38%

Unfortunately, I found the challenge quite late. If I had known about it from the start, I could have fight for the main prize, Surface RT tablet, and I would have reached the Level 3. Anyway I just wanted to get the t-shirt 🙂

Well, why would one give up on other levels? So I continued answering questions. And Level 3 was really close…

By the time I joined the challenge, many questions had been asked and answered. And I didn’t have access to Windows 8 from some time and therefore I couldn’t answer some questions because I had no way to check. Nevertheless I tried to do my best.

Personally I haven’t tried the previous release. I only read about it. I am not fond of the new Start menu where (multi-)touch is the key of user experience. I don’t have any devices with touch. So it’s the first release of Windows that I am not excited about.

I understand the reasons why they made it that way. It’s rather expected step to converge user experiences across multiple devices. On the other hand, it assumes all new computers in offices should support touch, doesn’t it?